Ben Congleton was a PhD student in the School of Information and a co-founder of Olark.com. He is interested in ubiquitous computing, CSCW, HCI, and the design of interactive systems. He has a BS in business information technology and a BS and MS in computer science from Virginia Tech.Projects:

• Prospero, a toolkit for Audience Aware Public Displays.
• SSAPP, a simple sensor architecture for simulating and prototyping privacy aware pervasive environments.

Jun Zhang graduated with a PhD from the School of Information and is a Research Fellow Pitney-Bowes Research in Connecticut.  He is interested in expertise sharing, social networks, and CSCW.  Jun also has a BS in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University.Previous work:

• Understanding and Augmenting Expertise Networks (2008, thesis)
• Community Network Simulator
• Q&A communities

Xiaomu Zhou is currently faculty in the Informatics department at Northeastern University.  Previously, she was a faculty member at Rutgers in the School of Communication and Information. Her dissertation research examined informal information use in a hospital setting, with a focus on patient psychosocial information.Xiaomu has a BS in computer science and technology, Shandong University, and a MS in computer science and application, Beijing Institute of Technology.Thesis:

• Information in Healthcare: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Hospital Ward (2010)

Kevin Nam graduated with a PhD from the School of Information and is currently at MIT/Lincoln Labs. He is interested in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Kevin also has an MS in computer science from the University of Michigan and a BS in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas.Thesis:

• Arkose: A Prototype Mechanism and Tool for Collaborative Information Generation and Distillation (2010)

Jina Huh graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Information and is currently an assistant professor in Medical Informatics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).  Previously she was an assistant professor in Media and Information at Michigan State University and a post-doctoral fellow in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

Jiang Yang is a researcher at Alibaba Research. She graduated with a PhD from the UM School of Michigan and was also a post-doc at SI working on inter-cultural effects in online communities, especially in question-answering. Jiang has a BS degree in Information System & Management and a MS in Financial Engineering from the University of Science & Technology of China. Jiang was co-advised by Lada Adamic.Previous projects: